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Letters Patent IVO. 71,626, dated 'Tovcmber 19, 1867. i

IMPROVBD HOSE-GUARD.

T0 ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: i

i Be it known that I, DAVID P. LEWIS, of Huntsville, in the county of Huntsville, and `State of Alabama, have invented a new and improved- Hose-Guard; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled inthe art to make and use the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

The presentinvention relates to a guard for the hose of fire engines when laid across the street having railroad tracks, in cases of fires, the object of which is to allow the ruiming of the cars and at the Sametime afford no obstruction to the free passage ofthe water through the hose. In theaccompanying plate of drawings my improved hose-guard is illustrzitcd- Figure 1 being a side View of the same'.

Figure 2 an end View of the same opened; and

Figure 3 atransverse section, taken in the plane of the line :1: at, iig. 1. LAX

t Similar letters of reference yindicate corresponding parts. v MNM" A, in the drawings, represents a. tube or casing for the hose, made o f iron or other metaLand suieiently large to admit of the hose when distended with water, and allow the free passage of water through it. This tube is to be suiciently long for. it to pass entirely under the width of the railroad track, beneath thel irons thereof, and thick enough to resist the pressure to which it may be subjected. The ends B to this tube A areI L closed by a gate or door, C, arranged to slide thereon, and to be easilyinserted and Withdrawn, as may be desired, these doors C, when acrossv the open ends, preventing the'ent-ranee or passage of dirt to the interior of the tribe which would obstruct the same. The ends to the tube A are cut off at an angle of forty-five degrees', or thereabouts, with the lower sidethe longer, so as to allow the hose' to .be the Amore easily inserted. It isv intended to use a block or stone, with a ring or staple fastened on it, and shaped to t the ends of the tube, for each end ofthe tube in the pavement or roadway, which, when removed, afford a space for the hose to enter the tube and pass out therefrom, and to increase the convenience ofaecess to the tube. Several tubes may be cast together for a number of hose. l I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patentt A guard for hose or' tubing, made substantially as described, for the purpose specified.

The above specieation of my invention signed by me this 29th day of- July, 186,7.

DAVID P. LEWIS.

f Witnesses:

f W. B. FAnrss, BENJ. JoLLnY. 

